Over the past six weeks, various fires have popped up in eastern Arizona. The Horseshoe 2 fire in the Chiricahua Mountains is still visible from our mailbox (10 miles from our house). It started on May 8 and has burned over 200,000 acres. The Monument fire started last Sunday, a week ago. It is in the Huachuca Mountains, on the south side of Sierra Vista, population 42,000+. From our front porch, we have a direct view of Sierra Vista, about 60 miles due south. Since the fourth day of the Monument fire, there has been so much smoke around the Huachucas that we can't see much detail. We are fortunate not to have much smoke at the ranch, as the wind has been blowing, over 25 mph much of the time and directly east. I took this photo on the third day of the fire, from our front porch.
